Project Veggie Oil Car Near Completion
Yeah so project super offensive/piece of car/veggie oil drinking mobile is pretty well under way at this point. The success of it is that we actually made it run on oil and despite a few minor problems, its still driveable. I’m waiting on a few things like a new relay and some new oil return lines to make everything easy to do on a daily basis but after that we’ll be set.
Collecting and filtering our first two cubes of egg roll oil from the Chinese place me and my father always go to was quite fun. We made a pretty serious mess since we had no idea what we were doing. We’re definitely going to work on setting up a better filtration system that is less of a hassle and less messy. I’m even thinking of investing in this nice fancy oil filtration system but… that might be down the road a bit.
I just added the first 5 gallons of real straight up egg roll oil to the gas tank. Before that we put in 10 gallons of clean brand new vegetable oil we bought from costco and the car smelled like corn when we drove it. I’m looking forward to the nice smell we’ll experience from the egg roll oil.
This has been a really entertaining experience overall and I’m glad I did it. 1600 for the car and 800 for the kit and we have a car that we can essentially drive around for free. Getting oil really isn’t hard, they just leave it outside the restaurant and we can come and pick it up when we need it. Then we take it home and filter it quickly and we can put it right into the gas tank. Is it really worth the money we save? Probably not. Is it hilarious and fun? Definitely. For me personally its definitely a good thing to have a terribly slow car to drive on a daily basis so the cops will stop impounding my car and threatening to imprison me.
Its also fun to have a car that you can put really offensive bumper stickers on without having to worry about your car getting keyed. I hope to finish up the hood rusting soon. My dad thinks we should give the car a nice paint job but with it leaking a gallon of motor oil per day I don’t really think that’s going to pay off in the long run. I’d really rather just continue taking all of the paint off the car and painting it RUST. Anyways if anyone ever wants to borrow a car to drive for a really long time let me know. Or if you just want to run a car in your friends garage and make it smell like egg rolls let me know, I can provide either.
